Another Flint?

[bboy_mn]

No: HPFGUIDX 40858

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Lucy Austin" <lucy at l...> wrote:
>...edit... The counter to the Stunning Curse 'Stupefy', is the word
'Enervate' to bring the victim back round. 
... edit .....
... the English word 'enervated' ..., means to deprive of vigour and
vitality. ... it should create an even deeper Stun, rather than waking
them up? 
... edit ....
> 
> Can I be a L.O.O.N now?
> 
> Lucy

Know I'm not suppose to post extremely short answers, but maybe
they'll let me get away with this one.

Just a guess but maybe it is depriving the SPELL of vigour and
vitaltity, rather than depriving the victim.

In other words, it could be a charm for weakening any spell, thereby
restoring the victim. 

Just out of curiosity, I tried to find similar words that JKR might
have intended to use, but grabbed this one by mistake. I search my
digital dictonary for every word relating to energize, vitalize,
revitalize, revive, and any other word I could think of and couldn't
find a substitute. Then I tried running all those words through a
Latin Dictionary ...
http://cawley.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl?oil
... to see if any of them produce a word similar to 'enervate'; no
luck. So I have to conclude that you really did find a mistake.
Unusual, when you consider how knowledgable and meticulous JKR usually is.

By the way, the Latin Dictionary I gave a link to is excellent. It
simultaneously searches English and Latin, so all you have to do is
enter any word or word fragement in either language and it give you
all occurances. Very hand.

BBoy_MN